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| 1121 | What were the two cities in 'A Tale Of Two Cities'? | London and Paris | |
| 1122 | Which Famous Book Contains The Line 'In A Hole In The Ground There Lived A' | The Hobbit | |
| 1123 | Whose ghost appears at the dinner table in 'Macbeth'? | Banquo's | |
| 1124 | This subject is covered in the magazine "Bondage" (two words) | James bond | |
| 1125 | Which book featured the miser Scrooge? | A Christmas Carol | |
| 1126 | In 'Alice In Wonderland', who never stopped sobbing? | Mock Turtle | |
| 1127 | What Dutch master painted 64 self_portraits | Rembrandt | |
| 1128 | Who wrote the Discworld series ? | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1129 | A printing process in which ink impressions are taken from a flat stone or metal plate prepared with a greasy substance, such as an oily crayon. | Litography | |
| 1130 | Who's last words were 'Thus with a kiss I die'? | Romeo | |
| 1131 | Which publishing company was founded in London in 1935 by Allen Lane? | Penguin | |
| 1132 | A movement, c. 1915-23, that rejected accepted aesthetic standards. It aimed to create antiart and nonart, often employing a sense of the absurd. | Dadaism | |
| 1133 | What's Penthouse's sister publication for women? | Viva | |
| 1134 | Who wrote 'Weird Harold and Fat Albert'? | Bill Cosby | |
| 1135 | In 'Romeo and Juliet', who said 'I have a faint cold, fear thrills through my veins'? | Juliet | |
| 1136 | What story features flopsy, mopsy and cottontail? | Peter Rabbit | |
| 1137 | The play "Our Town" is set where? | Grover's Corners | |
| 1138 | A single print made from a metal or glass plate on which an image has been represented in paint, ink, etc. | Monotype | |
| 1139 | Spanish modernist and cubist Pablo _____ | Picasso | |
| 1140 | A movement in American painting and sculpture that originated in the late 1950s. It emphasized pure, reduced forms and strict, systematic compositions. | Minimalism | |
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| 1141 | In painting, a work made of several panels or scenes joined together. A diptych has two panels; a triptych, three. | Polyptych | |
| 1142 | From the french word 'fauve', meaning 'wild beast'. A style adopted by artists associated with Matisse, c. 1905-1908. They painted in a spontaneous manner, using bold colors. | Fauvism | |
| 1143 | In 'A Christmas Carol', how many ghosts visited Scrooge? | Four | |
| 1144 | The representation of inanimate objects in painting, drawing or photography. | Still life | |
| 1145 | Who wrote 1984 ? | George Orwell | |
| 1146 | Author of such works as Gravity's Rainbow, V, The Crying of Lot 49 and most recently, Mason & Dixon? | Thomas Pynchon | |
| 1147 | Who wrote 'Rendezvous with Rama'? | Sir Arthur C. Clarke | |
| 1148 | In sculpting, the cutting of a form from a solid, hard material such as stone or wood, in contrast to the technique of modeling. | Carving | |
| 1149 | Who wrote the epic poem Odyssey ? | Homer | |
| 1150 | Which Gilbert and Sullivan Opera is about the Emperor of Japan? | The Mikado | |
| 1151 | What publication was subtitled The What's New Magazine | Popular science | |
| 1152 | A russian abstract movement begun in the early twentieth century. It employs an analytic vision based on fragmentation and multiple viewpoints. | Cubism | |
| 1153 | Who wrote 'The Female Eunuch'? | Germaine Greer | |
| 1154 | A movement of the 1920s and 1930s that began in France. It explored the unconscious, often using images from dreams. It used spontaneous techniques and featured unexpected juxtapositions of objects. | Surrealism | |
| 1155 | Who wrote the 'Myth' series? | Robert Asprin | |
| 1156 | A decorative art movement that emerged in the late nineteenth century. Characterized by dense assymmetrical ornamentation in sinuos forms, it is often symbolic and of an erotic nature. | Art noveau | |
| 1157 | "Now is the winter of our discontent" is a line from which Shakespearian play? | Richard III | |
| 1158 | Who said 'But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks'? | Romeo | |
| 1159 | In What book would you find a Hefalump? | Winnie the Pooh | |
| 1160 | Stephen King's: " Pet ________". | Cemetary | |
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| 1161 | In 'Romeo and Juliet', who gave a long monologue about Queen Mab? | Mercutio | |
| 1162 | A representation of a human or an animal form. | Figure | |
| 1163 | Which US clarinetist players real name was Arthur Jacob Shaw? | Artie Shaw | |
| 1164 | What Shakespearean play features the line: A plague on both your houses? | Romeo and Juliet | |
| 1165 | According To "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy" what number is the answer to everything? | Forty Two | |
| 1166 | Who wrote "The count of Monte-Christo"? | Dumas | |
| 1167 | Who wrote the 'Father Brown' crime stories? | G.K. Chesterton | |
| 1168 | Who wrote three books under the title "Das Kapital" ? | Karl Marx | |
| 1169 | What word is Isaac Asimov famous for coining ? | Robotics | |
| 1170 | A method of painting developed by Seurat and Signac in the 1880s. It used dabs of pure color that were intended to mix in the eyes of viewers rather than on the canvas. It is also called divisionism or neoimpressionism. | Pointillism | |
| 1171 | Gandalf's elven name. | Mithrandir | |
| 1172 | The ____ ____ school of poetry includes poets such as Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery and Kenneth Koch | New York | |
| 1173 | What is the name of Hamlet's tragic admirer? | Ophelia | |
| 1174 | Which Author Wrote The 'Just So Stories''? | Rudyard Kipling | |
| 1175 | Faulkner penned this book with 4 distinctive sections: the Benjy section, Quentin's section, Jason and then Dilsey's sections. | The Sound and the Fury | |
| 1176 | Ground chalk or plaster mixed with glue, used as a base coat for tempera and oil painting. | Gesso | |
| 1177 | Who Wrote (Gone With The Wind) | Margaret Mitchell | |
| 1178 | The visual and tactile quality of a work based on the particular way the materials are handled; also, the distribution of tones or shades of a single color. | Texture | |
| 1179 | Who was Winnie the Pooh's neighbour? | Piglet | |
| 1180 | Which Author Described World War One As The War To End All Wars? | HG Wells | |
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| 1181 | Design style prevalent during the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by a sleek use of straight lines and slender forms. | Art deco | |
| 1182 | A technique in abstract painting developed in the 1950s. It focuses on the lyrical effects of large areas of color, often poured or stained onto the canvas. | Color field painting | |
| 1183 | Name the Shakespeare play from this ultra short plot summary: Urged on by his wife, a man murders his king in order to take his place. | Macbeth | |
| 1184 | What Colour Is Art & Literature In The Standard Edition Of 'Trivial Pursuit''? | Brown | |
| 1185 | On a represented form, a point of most intense light. | Highlight | |
| 1186 | A print made by carving on a wood block, which is then inked and printed. | Woodcut | |
| 1187 | Which Author Penned The Disc- World Series Of Sci-Fi Novels? | Terry Pratchett | |
| 1188 | Which Literary Character Had A Dog Called Bulls Eye? | Bill Sykes (Oliver!) | |
| 1189 | Meaning 'rebirth' in french. Refers to Europe c. 1400-1600. The style began in Italy and stressed the forms of classical antiquity, a realistic representation of space based on scientific perspective, and secular subjects. | Renaissance | |
| 1190 | Who created 'Maudie Frickett'? | Jonathan Winters | |
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